The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-01-14
ST. LOUIS.
NEWS SUMMARY.

NEWS SUMMARY.
The Mayor of Allegheny City vetoed
the ordinance providing for standard
time.
The Missouri House elected j. w,
Alexander, OF DayiesS county, as
speaker.
Il. Duncan Sniffen, an advertising
agent OF New York city, has failed for
100000.
John J.. Sullivan is said to have
cleared $4,000 from. his sparring tour
in Montana. az ef rse
The Minnesota Republican legisla-
tive caucus selected ex- Governor Davis
as it's candidate for senator.
Joseph Tosso. the violinist who COM
posed "The Arkansas Traveller" died
Thursday in COvington, Ky.
New York is threatened with q fam
inc in fuel, on account Of a strike Of
coal-heavers in New Jersey.
Jacob Stoltz is the fifth person rem
dered insane by the antics of the Sal
vatlon army at Maryville, Mo.
The foundry of K. z. Allis ~ Co., at
Milwaukee, was burned Thursday eve
ming. The loss is estim ated at $780,
600.
The Republicans of the Michigan
legislature have nominated +. b.
St0ckbridgc, of Kalamazoo, for SEN
ator.
Governor Ames, &C Massachusetts,,
reports an increase Of Sic, 199, 500 for
the past year in the deposits of savings
banks.
A temperature of 40 degrees below
zero was registered by spirit thermo-
meters at Fort Keogh on Wednesday
night.
1t is positively stated that at Aitkin,
Minnesota. during Thursday night, the
thermometer registered 80 degrees be-
low zero.
A solid bed of red hematite ore, said
10 be as pure as any on the GogeDlc
range, has been discovered at Wausau,
wisconsin.
The consulship at Leith has been
rendered to DR.. Wllloughby Walling,
son-in-law of William III. English, OF
Indianapolis.
Mayor J. z. McIlrath, at one time
chief of police at st. Paul, shot him
self dead at Cleveland, because of con-
tinued illness.
The st. Paul road has declined to
Tomahawk river, and ultimately TO
Lake Superior.
The contract TOR the construction of
the naval cruiser Charleston was
awarded to the Union Iron Works, Of
San Francisco.
In the supreme court at New York.
Judge Barrett refused Jacob Sharp,
The Broadway railroad promoter, a
change Of venue.
The attorney general of Ohio has
brought suits i'm ejectment against
squatters on canal property in Akron
valued at 100000.
On increased wages Of nearly 20 per
cent the Edgar Thomson steel-works
at Braddock, Pennsylvania, has re-
sumed operations.
Ulcers in the throat, caused by to-
bacco, bid fair to force Congressm an
Thomas, of Illinois, to take o trip to
Bermuda this winter.
A dying convict in the Missouri pen
itentiary confessed having murdered
and robbed Judson G. Armstrong, near
Odessa two years ago.
About o'clock Tuesday morning
The city of San Francisco was for
seven seconds rocked from east to
west by an earthquake.
The chief aspirants for the Texas
Senatorship are Ireland, Maxey, Rea-
gan, and Terrell, with the probabili-
ties favoring the former.
The New York chamber Of COM
merce has adopted resolutions favor
ing 5. s. C0x's bill appropriating $780,
600, 600 for coast defences.
Alexander Crawford, an iron manu-
facturer OF Duluth. is one of five broth
ers who are to receive e1,000, 900 by the
death of cousin in Australia.
The election Of Roscoe Conkling as
United States Senator from New York
by the joint vote of democrats and re-
publicans is urged by the World.
There were several shocks of earth
quake at Charleston and Summer
vile, 5. c., Monday evening, accom-
panied by the usual roaring sound.
A board of engineer officers has
made to the secretary of war a report
which is in the main favorable to the
construction of the Hennepin canal.
Even the railway companies are TAX
ing an active part in the senatorial
campaign in New Jersey between
Governor Albeit and Senator Sewell.
The governor of Indiana reports the
total debt of that state at 81, COG, 900.
The insane hospital consumes about
one-fourth the entire revenue of the
state.
In each house of the Missouri legis-
lature bill has been introduced for
the submission to the people of the
question of prohibiting the liquor
traffic.
During prayer-meeting at school
house near Eldorado Springs, Mo-, a
man named Cakes raised a disturb
ance, and then killed a worshiper with